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The COVID-19 lockdown period has brought with it high levels of uncertainty to the entire education system and has school management teams with a range of very challenging issues to address. The successful transition through this period will rest very heavily on these leadership teams getting the right practices and disciplines in place from the…

During COVID-19, many school management teams are trying to figure out how they will cope with the demands of schooling where parts of the curriculum have been lost. The DBE draft Framework for Recovery post COVID-19 indicates “The success of the programmes will depend on effective school leadership and management and the extent to which…

PSA has an accredited Financial Management Module which it conducted with principals from the Edendale Circuit located in the Umgungundlovu district, KwaZulu-Natal.  The training followed PSA’s tested approach which is to conduct a group training session and to follow this up with coaching sessions with the principals at their schools to assist with implementation.  The…

Performance Solutions Africa is currently driving the Leadership and Management Development element of the Anglo America South Africa (AASA) Education programme which is being implemented in 109 schools in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Northern Cape. Our focus is working with the SMT’s to bring about improvement of the management practices in their schools to positively influence…

PSA has almost concluded the facilitation of a program of approximately 60 performance management workshops covering 1150 staff members at the DUT. These workshops commenced in September 2018 with the institution’s senior executive team and were then rolled out by level and by department to cover 79% of the total staff complement. The workshops were…

PSA is currently involved in the delivery of the Management & Leadership component of the Anglo America South Africa (AASA) Education Programme for 110 Primary & Secondary Schools located in the areas in which it is operating in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape. One of the first steps was to use our newly developed…

PSA is excited to have been commissioned to deliver the Management, Governance & Leadership initiative for 110 schools as part of the Anglo America South Africa Education Programme. The main objective of this Programme is the achievement of inclusive and quality education for children in the communities local to Anglo American South Africa operations. The…

Performance Solutions Africa decided early in 2011 that it would be important for the organisation to obtain ISO 9001:2008 certification and as a result started working towards this, achieving certification at the end of that year. Once certified, we had to undergo annual audits to ensure that our Quality Management System and processes were being…

One of the key challenges that confront education in South Africa is the lack of sound data to use in order to generate well informed improvements. In an effort to close this ‘data gap’ Performance Solutions Africa has been trialling a newly developed school management maturity tool which enables school principals and district officials to…

Reading remains a major obstacle to learning in the South African education system.   This problem, which cuts across grades and /or phases has been the subject of research and discussion in many studies including the international report of PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) published on 5 December 2017. The DSC of Bojanala saw…